Letters to the Editor

We have a new LoHud.com opinion page that gathers all of our commentary in one place. Find it here, or type http://www.lohud.com/opinion into your address bar. In addition to showcasing today’s best work across the top of the page, the page makes it easier to find our other content: Editorials…. Read More →

Letters on national politics are a staple on our Editorial Page, and, as those who are unhappy with the administration in power are more likely to write, it should be no surprise that an anti-Republican sentiment dominated for the last eight years. Also no surprise – in the month that… Read More →

We received the following letter today, printed below in its entirety, with the writer’s name and hometown removed: I have lived in (town) all my life and I am very angry over what has happened to our community. I have lived in the same house in (town) for over 60… Read More →

Shortly before a vote last month on a bond proposition for artificial turf field installation in the Irvington school district, we published a letter from Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., of Mamaroneck, professor of pediatrics and director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New… Read More →

I’ve had “Monty Python” on the brain this week – perhaps not too unusual considering my morning check of the letters e-mail (“Spam, spam, spam, real letter, spam, press release, spam and spam!”) and the fact that this week’s Letters pages are reminiscent of the “Argument” sketch (“Israel started it!”... Read More →

Readers will sometimes point out disparities between the time that letters are submitted and the time they are published in the paper – they’ll notice a letter responding to an article that ran two days earlier alongside another one responding to a letter from two weeks ago, and want to… Read More →

Every so often I’m asked, “What is the most controversial issue you have to deal with from letter-writers?” The answer always seems to surprise people: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” And with the situation in Gaza deteriorating, I’m bracing myself for the expected escalation of hostilities among some of our readers. More… Read More →

The debate over Gov. David Paterson’s proposed “obesity tax” on non-diet sodas continues among our letter-writers, as health advocates weigh in on the subject. Nancy Huehnergarth of Chappaqua, director of the New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Alliance, maintains that “Sugary soft drinks have been pinpointed repeatedly in… Read More →

The Seinfeld-inspired holiday Festivus features the “Airing of Grievances,” as illustrated by a Washington Post story that we published on Sunday about the Festivus bulletin board in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where residents have posted dozens of notes with complaints ranging from the petty to the heartbreaking…. Read More →

Letter-writers have begun reacting to the proposal by Gov. David Paterson to place a tax on sweetened sodas while exempting diet sodas and bottled water. The idea of a “sin tax” is to try to change behavior (while raising revenue at the same time) by making it cheaper to choose… Read More →